Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1951
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
1952
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
1953
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
1954
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1955
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1956
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1957
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1958
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1959
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1960
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1961
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1962
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1963
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1964
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1965
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1966
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1967
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1968
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1969
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1970
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1971
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1972
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1973
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1974
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1975
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min